Discover the power of love and compassion in this Doc Soup audience favourite, back on our screen by popular demand. Based on Andrew Solomon’s New York Times bestselling book, Far From The Tree is an intimate and profoundly human look at families raising children with extreme differences, including a mother and son determined to show the world that his Down syndrome does not define him; a couple learning to communicate with their autistic son; and a young woman dealing with what it means to be the only little person in her family. Tracing their joys, challenges, and triumphs, this life-affirming film will have you call into question exactly what is means to be "normal."
For this title, we offer Captiview devices for personal viewing of closed captioned content. To reserve a device for the screening of your choice, please contact cinemaboxoffice@hotdocs.ca.
Co-presented with Family Service Toronto